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Join us onsite for Fun Animal Friday with Love on a Leash, Friday, December 16 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. They will be introducing our guests to therapy dogs! The event will include a live presentation, story time, special craft, meet and greet, and more! Included with Museum admission. No registration required.

Interview with Maria Hinojosa and Dean Nelson as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates. Maria Hinojosa has written three books: "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America"; "Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son"; and "Crews: Gang Members Talk" with Maria Hinojosa. Hinojosa’s career includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring the Emmy Award winning talk show from WGBH Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One. In 2022 she received a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing her podcast, Suave. As a reporter who was the first Latina in many newsrooms, Maria Hinojosa dreamt of a space where she could create independent, multimedia journalism that explores and gives a critical voice to the diverse American experience. To that end, in 2010, she created Futuro Media, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Harlem, NYC with the mission to create multimedia content for and about the new American mainstream in the service of empowering people to navigate the complexities of an increasingly diverse and connected world. Hinojosa is the Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by PRX, as well as Co-Host of the award-winning political podcast, In The Thick. She is also a contributor to the long-running, CBS Sunday Morning and a frequent guest on MSNBC. Included in the ticket is live music from Fred Benedetti to begin at 6:15 p.m., when doors open for general admission seating. The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers N. Scott Momaday, Anthony Doerr and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!

Interview about "Barbarian Days" with William Finnegan and Ben Cater, hosted by the PLNU Honors Program as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates. William Finnegan is an award-winning reporter, a staff writer at The New Yorker, and the author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Barbarian Days", a memoir about his lifelong passion for surfing. In addition to "Barbarian Days", Finnegan’s books include "Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid", which was chosen by The New York Times Book Review as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year; "Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country", which was a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism; "Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters"; and "A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique". Included in the ticket is live music to begin at 6:15, when doors open for general admission seating. The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers N. Scott Momaday, Maria Hinojosa and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here!

Interview with Anthony Doerr and Dean Nelson as part of the 2023 Writer's Symposium by the Sea, Writing That Celebrates. Anthony Doerr is the author of "All the Light We Cannot See", which was awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award and is currently a finalist for Novel of the Year in the British Book Awards. He has also completed the story collections "The Shell Collector" and "Memory Wall", the memoir "Four Seasons in Rome", and the novel "About Grace". Anthony Doerr has been lauded for his lyricism, his precise attention to the physical world, and his gift for metaphor. The San Francisco Chronicle characterized Doerr’s literary ancestry as a combination of “Henry David Thoreau (for his pantheistic passions) and Gabriel García Márquez (for his crystal-cut prose and dreamy magic realism).” Included in the ticket is live music from Derren Raser to begin at 6:15, when doors open for general admission seating. The 28th Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea will be February 21-24, 2023, also featuring Pulitzer winning writers N. Scott Momaday, Maria Hinojosa and William Finnegan. For more info, visit here! SOCIAL MEDIA Anthony Doerr: Facebook & Instagram

We all experience loss and grief in life, but most of us are never taught how to navigate these experiences. "In Grieving Is Self-Compassion", a half-day virtual workshop presented by BELOVED Compassion Network, you'll discover the tools for safely facing your pain and cultivating self-compassion for yourself in this difficult time. Certified Compassion Practice facilitator Nancy Fowler will lead this workshop integrating the contemplative, meditative steps of the Compassion Practice as a way to navigate the grief process, care for yourself as you face your pain, and heal after loss.

Join us for the colorful Parol Lantern Festival as PASACAT transforms the Educational Cultural Complex into a Philippine Christmas village. With cultural performances, vendors and parol making workshops, experience the Philippines whose Christmas season is from September to January. More information about the event can be found here. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Wednesday, Aug. 30 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans to Illinois, leaving a million people homeless and leading to a major Black migration to the North.

Test your figure drawing or painting skills in this uninstructed painting session. Models vary and will be costumed or nude. No matter what your level of experience, you’re welcome to join and experience the thrill of painting directly from a live person posing for you. Date/Time: Fridays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED to secure your spot: Email Dottie Stanley dottieaartist@gmail.com. Ticket Prices: Free/M, $5/NM. Participants split the model fee. For further information, visit here! Stay Social! Facebook & Instagram

Join the Women’s Museum of California for a virtual lunchtime lecture on Tuesday, December 13 featuring artist/activist Desiree Aspires. Learn about the intersection of art and activism and how Desiree founded Printmakers Against Racism during the pandemic and raised over $50,000 for Black Lives Matter and other causes. Register for the talk in advance to be sent the Zoom link. Desiree Aspiras (she/her) is an educator, therapist, and printmaker in San Diego who deeply values how art can transform us and connect us to meaning. Her printmaking and book arts projects have been exhibited in spaces in San Diego, including the Athenaeum Art Center. She is the founder of Printmakers Against Racism, a project she started which engages printmakers across the world to make and sell prints and donate their proceeds to support racial justice. She is also a mindfulness facilitator and founder of Deep Breath Network, where she hopes to create diverse and welcoming spaces to share contemplative practices to support personal and social transformation with changemakers here in San Diego and beyond. She currently teaches at University of San Diego and Bastyr University California. She earned her Masters in Marital and Family Therapy from the University of San Diego and BA in Political Science from UCLA.

The San Diego County deserts and San Gorgonio Pass near Banning will be under the excessive heat warning until 8 p.m. Thursday.